Tagged with Malaysia

Malaysia Chuwn Leong Ch’ng, CEO of Thunder Print, presents his company’s strategic role within the Malaysian healthcare industry to provide a high-quality packaging services for all type of health products, from medicines to health supplements.   Today, we are one of the few printers in Malaysia that offer a complete range…

Malaysia Robert Kruit, chief executive for Zuellig Malaysia and Brunei, discusses Zuellig’s plans to expand beyond distribution and diversify its offering in the healthcare sector, and how Zuellig’s investments into digital health, commercial solutions, and animal health further the goal of making healthcare more accessible.   The pharmaceutical segment [in Malaysia]…

Malaysia Tan Sri Dato’ Ariffin Yusuf, founder and managing director of Primabumi, explains how he came to build Primabumi in 1975 and how he managed to position the company as a strategic partner for healthcare companies interested in winning public tenders. With his long business experience with the government, he also…

Malaysia Halal pharmaceuticals – medicines that do not contain any alcohol, parts of animals such as dogs, pigs, bees, or any other substances prohibited as ‘haram’ under Shariah law – are becoming increasingly widespread globally. This trend is especially prevalent in the Asia Pacific region, where the significant Muslim populations of…

Malaysia Lee Yee Keng, head of healthcare sector of KPMG in Malaysia, highlights the opportunities Malaysia can offer to the healthcare industry, including its potential for private-public partnerships, and how the consultancy is positioning itself as the key partner for all companies in Malaysia and South-East Asia.   When it comes…

Malaysia Wong Kin Sang, country manager of Lundbeck Malaysia, walks us through the mental health issues’ perception in Malaysia and the important work Lundbeck has done to bring more awareness to healthcare professionals and patients in the country. He also highlights his future plans for the affiliate to bring more innovative…

Malaysia Dr Hyzan Mohd Yusof, CEO at OSA Technology, tells the story of how he founded the company to address Malaysia’s unmet needs in medical devices as well as his vision on the next steps the government should take to boost the sector.   Having our own manufacturing plant is a…

Malaysia How Malaysia is setting itself up to provide biosimilars across the Islamic world as well as Asia.   Inno Bio Ventures, a Malaysian state-owned company originally set up to create drug security by ensuring that the country was self-sufficient in terms of medicine supply, has been making its first moves…

Malaysia Dr Ramli Zainal, the director at National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), expresses the continuous work of NPRA to build a strong regulatory ecosystem in Malaysia and the important role that the Malaysian regulator has in the ASEAN region. He also takes time to explain the upcoming priorities to further establish…

Malaysia Tan Sri Rahman Mamat, chairman of Inno Bio Ventures, provides his vision for biosimilars’ potential in Malaysia, and the progress the company has made in laying the foundations to make Malaysia an export hub for biological products in the future.   There is a strong potential for exporting biosimilars [from…

Malaysia George Kazzi, general manager of Baxter Malaysia, highlights the main areas of development for his affiliate, including the introduction of more renal dialysis innovation as well as increasing awareness and delivering additional solutions in parenteral nutrition. He also explains the ways in which the country should promote more effective home…

Malaysia Dr Dhesi Baha Raja, consultant in digital technologies at the Malaysian Ministry of Health, introduces the government’s plan to enter digital health through electronic medical records (EMR) and shares his insights regarding the use of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in the Malaysian healthcare system.   I arrived at the…